The following reply was made to PR port-i386/37565; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/37565: Attempting ACPI S1 suspend has weird effects
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:19:17 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, rhialto@falu.nl wrote:
> seems to turn off DRAM refresh since my screen starts to fade
> pixelwise. It comes back if I press a key but the machine
> remains hanging. It does funny things to the message buffer
> remaining after the reboot:
A huge help here would be if you could test this on 4.0, and possibly a
3.1 + ACPI kernel also. Would give us a rough idea where to start looking,
as I know this did work for me at one point in the distant past..
Cheers,
Jared